Posted 20 September 2010

This Week On The SingStore (22 September 2010)

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Welcome to the new SingStore update. In the girl corner this week, some more Pussycat Dolls, Girls Aloud and Dido and, representing the boys, The Jackson 5, Twin Atlantic and The Drums. My pick of the week: ‘No No Never’ by Texas Lightning. Just an excuse to dress up as a cowgirl, really :-)

Foreign lanuguage tracks are available in Danish, German, Polish and Spanish plus check out the exclusive Tears For Fears song pack including ‘Sowing The Seeds of Love’ and ‘Shout’; download it and let it all out!

The boys from Locnville have chosen their favourite tracks to sing from the SingStore which you can find in the What’s Hot? section and they have also presented us with a lovely wallpaper. And guess what? Yes, it’s absolutely free so make your way to the wallpaper section and Locnville-up your PS3.

thanks for the update.Can you please do me a favour and have a look at the audio of “Someday” by the No Angels from the last Singstore Update? It’s clearly not the original version, probably some messed up live version, i don’t know. I know it’s difficult to fix but we’ve paid for the original version and maybe you could pass this on to the right guys. Ok?

Also “Stop and Stare” by Onerepublic appears to be asynchronous. I don’t know if it’s just me, but it’s the only track that doesn’t work correctly :/

Hi Nina! Above all I wanted to thank you for this ad! It’s been some time since I had not come to leave you a comment. I hope you’re well?

Did you know that since April 22, 2010, you do not put a single French song in the SingStore? Did you know that since June 2009, you no longer released a record in France Singstar? (Hits Singstar 2)

My question is simple, and I want an answer if possible: Have you abandoned the French market? Singstar is it not profitable in France?

I spend hours and hours volunteering on my website and on Facebook at the promotion of your game Singstar. He must tell me, right now, if I am all for nothing. So stop me and I could devote myself entirely to something else!

I am not able to comment on this situation anymore than I already have in the past and that will probably stay that way for a while.Currently, my hands (and mouth) are tied by the people who lay down the law, I hope you understand.

Wow! German, polish, danish and spanish songs!!!!!That’s great..Dear razazier I understand that 5 months are so much, but if you think that in 2010 no italian songs are added in the Singstore you see that you’re not so unlucky!!!I will never understand the reasons because Singstar doesn’t add beautiful and popoular songs for all the countries.. Don’t you pay €1.49 every song?Well, we can only hope that it will change even if it seems very hard..Hi everybody and good sing!!!!!

Very few tracks on the update this week. I hope next updates get much better.

By the way, when will we know about how much will we have to pay to update existing tracks on the Singstore for Dance/Guitar? It’s something I’ve been asking for some weeks on the Spanish blog but I haven’t received any answer.

Another not so good update. I think we have been spooky in the early months of this year and the last few months seem poor because of this. Still, I feel bad for you other countries who get the odd song here and there. But, I suppose license issues, plus the fact the guys have been working on dance & move don’t help either.

Nina, last release, you replied over my comments about releases & requests……I think it’s true to say that most of us blogging probably have little idea of what it takes to secure these songs, but I don’t think we are helped in regards to the info available online….

Therefore, I have a suggestion – on the official website, create an A-Z listing of songs that have not been released, but you are chasing, and give us some brief notes about the status of these songs….

The key is that this list should be regularly updated, something we don’t see much on the website at present…

Nina, last release, you replied over my comments about releases & requests……I think it’s true to say that most of us blogging probably have little idea of what it takes to secure these songs, but I don’t think we are helped in regards to the info available online….

Therefore, I have a suggestion – on the official website, create an A-Z listing of songs that have not been released, but you are chasing, and give us some brief notes about the status of these songs….

The key is that this list should be regularly updated, something we don’t see much on the website at present…

Hey Nina, I was browsing your old updates and got super excited when I saw that Dusty Springfield’s “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” had been added in June. I went to buy it now, but it seems to have since disappeared :-(

So, good news: the track is still there so if you search for it or Dusty you will find it in the store. For some reason this songs didn’t group under Dusty as it should – it will do again from the next update. Thanks for reporting this!

Sorry to tell but that’s what I call an ultra mega weak update (quality & quantity of English songs) : even the English songs are not that attractive… . Nothing for me this time ! But I’m still confident about finding one or two interesting songs (to the max) in a fortnight ‘cos anything can be better than this update.

Well this update really says it all, & that is the people @ london studios really couldn`t care less if we buy the songs or not….poor show once again….is there anybody there with any musical knowledge @ all….after the last 6 or 7 updates i seriously doubt it? Sorry nina it has to be said but if you look @ lips for the x-box & compare it with what you guys are giving us….I mean where`s this great back catilogue of sonys?? Come on guys PULL YOUR FINGER OUT!!

@29 – Lips does seem to have had a good selection of tracks recently, espcially the Andrew Lloyd Webber songs (Phantom Of The Opera?!!!)

I wonder how much of this is due to the cost of the songs (£1.40 vs 99p), if they just got there first and got an exclusive deal, or even better bribes from the licensing team (*cough*) ;)If it is the former, I’m sure people won’t mind too much if you bumped the price up by 40p to match (also bringing it up to premium iTunes videos level), as long as there was a resulting increase in number of songs to go with it :)

Not that I’m complaining about the songs we’re getting of course, but more songs more often are never a bad thing ;)

Hi Nina, i’ve just purchased the both songs of the Pussycat Dolls, Jai Ho and Hush Hush. But when i look at my purchase history, it doesn’t stand there to download. But the money’s already been taking of my account. And when i try to purchase them again, it says, that they can’t handle my purchase. Can you look after this?

Thanks you for reporting this. This is just happening with Hush, hush, right? We’ve had a few people report this and we do know what the problem is but we need to work with our colleagues at PSN to fix it.

I just went to the store to buy the new songs. I added them in my cart just fine, I paid them, and when I clicked to download now, it started downloading all the songs that I have bought but I dont have on my carousel. So I loged out to stop the process cause I didnt want those songs… Then I logged in again, and when I went to purchase history to download just the songs from this update, they werent there :S and when I chose the songs on the store, they still had their price on, like I never bought them, but If i try to purchase them and pay for them again it says that I cant continue this opperation and returns me to the singstore… :S

Hi – these songs were only released on 22/9 so you wouldn’t be able to see them on the 21/9. This post is just to let you know what will be released on the Wednesday of that same week and doesn’t mean they have been released onto the store yet. Thanks, Nina

@ dudusp: when nina posts here to say what songs will be available it is songs that are available the NEXT day so for yesterday’s blog the new songs were not available on the singstore until today (22nd)

having the same problem as some people above – have purchased girls aloud (and was intending to buy the pussycat dolls songs too) and it’s not there to download. Have paid for it, but it’s not in purchase history but clearly on the email that it has been purchased :(